Stale.

I relish that you’re so unhappy.

Pointing out the bs that liberal ladies like you post is easy, and it looks like it stings a bit.

Smaller police associations usually do represent well the feelings of their members, the larger ones in many ways don’t. The bigger ones giving an endorsement to a politician, be it the PPL, ALADS or PORAC mean little to their membership.

While I have the greatest support for Chief Beck and know he’s earned his position by working his way up from the trenches, I think Chf Bratton was right and brave to endorse where he did on the WHOLE e.g. for Weiss who he worked with for 7 years vs. the other guy, ahem (tho agree he shouldn’t spread it too thin), but would agree to NO ONE making endorsements, starting with the County DA and County Sheriff who meddled and twisted arms first in a CITY election to have us end up in the debacle we’re in now. Bratton was responding only in a positive way to their very negative (downright bizarrely inflammatory and false, even aptly seen as the law enforcement wing of the L A Weekly but with a strong bully pulpit and access to lots of money) behavior. DA Cooley’s widely known to have wanted someone he controls to take over for him as DA, unless his ambition has now gotten bigger than that – another election cycle we must beware of.

This whole current CD2 election, with the amazing amount of money some unions mainly the Police Protective League are spending to elect a total novice over someone they admit has a solid record supporting law enforcement, is disturbing in its nastiness with shades of the City Attorney election. (John Shallman being the manager for both Trutanich and Cooley and Essel, is being cites all over even by the Daily News, as no coincidence.) The PPL’s opposition to Chf. Bratton was also well-known, and PPL- “bought” or beholden candidates like Smith, Parks, Rosendahl, Zine etc. insist that the trash fees which wee tripled specifically FOR “1000 cops” were never meant for that but just to offset real cost of trash pickup (after they used Chief Bratton and his credibility to “sell it” to the public in ads and mailers) while Weiss, Garcetti, the Mayor and certain others supported the Chief on his goal to maintain 10,000 cops as “a floor” and shoot for 12,000. This is a position Chf. Beck has reiterated, but having come up through the local ranks, I can see he’d be reticent to endorse anyone against the PPL (even though they don’t actually represent the real rank & file but just a clique, by many accounts). So really, it’s a case-sensitive issue on many levels.

As you note, SO40 is another sensitive issue where Beck says he supports it – but does that mean AS interpreted now, as Chf. Bratton did, or as “Jack Dunphy” and certain conservative cops and officials like Zine and Trutanich and especially his right hand Berger the Walter Moore running mate, have said they do, which is to be more aggressive in looking for illegals as a prime directive, apart from committing other crimes? Saying “he supports SO40″ is actually a lot more of a potential gray area than it sounds. But I have confidence that Beck can navigate it in a way that appeases both the ACLU types and the Jack Dunphies.